The Application User Interface
The user interface is divided up into four main areas:
- The Summary View
- The Medicines View
- The History View
- The Tools View
Each of the views listed above can be accessed quickly and easily via what is known as the Tab Bar. The Tab Bar is displayed along the bottom of the screen, and displays the names of each of the four main user interface areas, along with a simple icon for that area.
To make it easier to understand the interface, the following diagram shows the main features of the Summary View:
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Obtaining And Installing MediMemory
MediMemory is only available through the iPhone App Store. In order to purchase and install the software, you will need the following:
- An iPhone (any model) or an iPod touch, with the latest firmware installed
- An iTunes store account
MediMemory can either be purchased and installed directly from your iPhone or iPod touch by using the App Store application, or it can be purchased and installed via iTunes on your desktop computer.
Terms And Conditions Of Use
Before using MediMemory, you must fully and carefully read the information provided on this website. Pay particular attention to the capabilities and restrictions of the medication reminder alarm and notification features. The first time that MediMemory runs on your device after installation, you will be required to confirm that you have read the information on this website, understand the software capabilities, and agree to use MediMemory in a manor consistent with these instructions.
MediMemory should be used primarily for tracking details of the medicines you regularly use, how often you use them, in what quantities, and how much stock you still have. The reminder functionality should be treated as a useful additional feature, but should not be relied upon as the only means of remembering to take your medications punctually. Under no circumstances should you use the information provided by MediMemory to replace the medical details and schedules provided by your Doctor. If in any doubt about your correct medication schedules, contact your Doctor.
It is also important to keep your MediMemory software up to date with the latest updates released through the App Store. Updates are free, and will ensure that you get access to newest features and fixes to any known problems or issues identified by other MediMemory users.
Application Overview
The MediMemory application is built around two key kinds of information:
Medicines
A medicine (or medication) is considered to be anything that you want to monitor with MediMemory. This can be anything from headache tablets to vitamin supplement liquids, insulin for injection to test strips for making blood sugar level tests, or any other item you wish to track. What is important is that the item you wish to track can be defined using the following information:
- A unique name for the item that is meaningful to you (e.g. Vitamins)
- A description of the unit of measurement for the item (e.g. Tablet(s) )
- The number of units of the item that are contained in a pack (e.g. 120 Tablets)
Schedules
Schedules are used to describe what medicine to take, how much to take, and how often to take it. An example of a simple schedule would be:
Take 2 Vitamin Tablets at 10:00 every day
In order to define a schedule, you must first define the medicine to which the schedule is to be applied. The basic information required to define a schedule is:
- The medicine to be taken (e.g. Vitamins)
- The number of units of the medicine to be taken (e.g. 2 Tablets)
- The frequency of the schedule (e.g. Every 3 days)
- The next occurrence of the schedule (e.g. 10:00 tomorrow)
That’s it! That’s everything that needs to be defined in order to use MediMemory. Of course, you can defined as many medicines as you need, and each medicine can have as many schedules as necessary. Furthermore, schedules can also be more complex than the example given, but to get you started, understanding the basic concepts of medicines and schedules is all that is required.
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The diagram above highlights the following key items:
The date and time of the next reminder will always be displayed on the Summary View. If you touch either the date or time fields, the Next Reminder Details View will be displayed, showing further information about the next reminder.
1. Next Reminder Date and Time
The date and time of the next reminder will always be displayed on the Summary View. If you touch either the date or time fields, the Next Reminder Details View will be displayed, showing further information about the next reminder.
2. Stock Level Indication
The stock level indicator keeps you informed about the amount of medicine you still have at home, and warns you when any medicine will soon run out.
- When your stock level is normal, “Stock OK” will be displayed in green.
- When the stock level is starting to get low, “Stock low” will be displayed in amber. Once the time remaining until a medicine runs out drops below 10 days, the number of days until empty will also be displayed.
- Once any medicine stock has run out, “Stock empty” will be displayed in red.
If you touch the stock level indication field, the Stock View will be displayed.
3. Shopping List
As soon as any medicine stock level gets low or empty, the shopping list field will be displayed. If you touch the shopping list field, the Shopping List View will be displayed. Your shopping list is automatically created based on the stock levels of each of your defined medicines. When building your shopping list, MediMemory will not only include all medicines that already have low or empty stock, but it will also include medicines that will soon get low. In this way, MediMemory helps to reduce the number of visits made to the chemist, and also ensure you only buy the medicines you need.
4. Summary Tab
The summary tab is displayed in the tab bar at the bottom of the screen, and when pressed will take you directly back to the Summary View.
5. Medicines Tab
The medicines tab is displayed in the tab bar at the bottom of the screen, and when pressed will take you directly back to the Medicines View.
6. History Tab
The history tab is displayed in the tab bar at the bottom of the screen, and when pressed will take you directly back to the History View.
7. Tools Tab
The tools tab is displayed in the tab bar at the bottom of the screen, and when pressed will take you directly back to the Tools View.
Entering And Updating Information
As a general rule, information stored in MediMemory is displayed in lists of similar items. Touching an item in the list will display details about that item. For example, the Medicines View shows a list of all medicines that you have defined. If you touch any one of those medicines, the Medicine Details View will open to display more information about the selected medicine.
The information held within MediMemory is protected against accidental changes. In order to change any information, you will need to put the current view into an edit mode. Note that not all views support changing of data. If a view supports changing of data, an edit button will be displayed in the top right of the window. Pressing the edit button will unlock the displayed data, allowing it to be changed. At the same time, the edit button will change to display the word “done”, and will also change colour. Pressing the button again will lock the displayed data and change the button name back to “edit”.
When entering the edit mode, it is important to understand the different behaviour of list views vs. detail views:
- The edit mode of a list view allows new items to be created, and existing items to be deleted. For example, if the edit button is pressed on the Medicines View, the view changes to allow a new medicine to be added, or any existing medicine to be deleted. However, not all list views allow their information to be edited. The History View for example does not support editing. If a list view is opened that supports editing and there are no items in the list, it will automatically open in edit mode.
- The edit mode of a details view highlights fields that are editable in dark blue. Touching an editable field will open an editor for the information in that field. Not all details views allow their displayed information to be changed.
Defining Your First Medicine
To start entering your medication details, touch the Medicines Tab at the bottom of the screen. As this is your first medicine, the medicine list will be displayed, but will not contain any medicines. However, the view will be automatically in edit mode, offering the option to define a new medicine.
Touch the Add new field. This will start a new medicine wizard, which will help you enter the important information that is required when defining a medicine.
The first piece of required information is the medicine name, and an editor will be opened automatically, displaying a keyboard to allow you to make changes to the default name provided. After making your changes to the name, press the Next button to continue defining your medicine. You can of course press the Cancel button at any stage of the process to stop defining the medicine and discard the information you have already entered.
The next piece of required information is the medicine units, and the units editor will be opened automatically. Note that a number of common medicine units have already been provided. Use the picker displayed at the bottom of the screen to select from the available choices. If you cannot find an appropriate unit for your medicine, just tap the field to the right of the word Custom. This will bring up the keyboard, and allow you to name the unit yourself. When finished, press the Next button.
The next piece of required information is the quantity of medicine in a pack. This quantity information is used to calculate how many packs you should purchase when your medicine stock is getting low. The quantity editor will be opened automatically, and is similar to the editor used to change the medicine name, except that a numeric keyboard is presented. Enter the correct quantity and press the Next button.
The final piece of required information is the quantity of medicine that you have in stock at home. This information is used to calculate how long your stock will last, and when your stock is getting low. The stock quantity editor will be opened automatically, and is similar to the pack quantity editor, except that it allows the stock quantity to be specified either directly via a numeric keyboard, or by adding and removing full packs of medicine from your stock list. Enter the correct stock quantity and press the Done button.
You have now entered all necessary information to define your first medicine, and the Medicine Details View will be automatically opened, displaying details of the medicine you have just defined.
As with all details views, the information displayed is initially protected against accidental changes. In order to change the displayed values, change the view into edit mode by pressing the Edit button at the top right of the screen.
Once in edit mode, you will see that the fields that can be changed are displayed in dark blue. Now touch the Name field. This will open the editor for the medicine name, and display the keyboard to allow you to make changes. You will notice that this is almost identical to the editor you used to initially define the medicine name, except that you no longer get Next or Cancel buttons. This is because you are no longer using a wizard to help you define the medicine.
To exit the medicine name editor, press either the Save or Cancel button. This will return you to the Medicine Details View.
Now that the medicine information has been entered, you need to define when to take your medication, how much to take, and how often.
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Defining A Medicine Schedule
To create a medicine schedule, first open the Medicine Details View for the medicine that you want to schedule. Scroll to the bottom of the view, and touch Schedules. This will open the Schedules View, and display a list of all schedules that have already been defined for this medicine (if any). Put the view into edit mode (if it isn't already) by pressing the Edit button at the top right of the screen. If this is the first schedule to be defined for this medicine, the view will have automatically opened in edit mode.
In a similar manor to defining a new medicine, touching the Add new field will start a wizard that will guide you through the process of defining a new schedule.
The wizard will guide you through the process of defining the following key pieces of schedule information:
- The number of units to take, where a unit is the unit you defined when creating the medicine (e.g. a tablet).
- The frequency at which that specified medicine quantity should be taken. This is defined in two parts; a number and a unit. The unit can only be one of the MediMemory predefined time units: Once only, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. The number is the number of those units that should go by before the medicine should be taken again. For example, you can define a frequency of every 45 minutes, every 2 hours, every 1 day and so on. “Once only” is a special unit, and means that the medicine should be taken at the next reminder time, but not repeated again after that.
- The next occurrence, which is the time and date at which you will next take this medicine. Note that all future reminders will be based from this time. This means that, if you define a schedule that occurs every 1 hour, and the next occurrence is at 9:00 tomorrow, this means that you will get your first reminder to take the medicine at 9:00 tomorrow, then the next reminder at 10:00 tomorrow, then the next reminder at 11:00 tomorrow, and so on.
When you have finished entering the information required by the new schedule wizard, the Schedule Details View will be automatically opened, displaying details of the schedule you have just defined. The new schedule will be effective immediately, and will be visible in the Medicine Calendar, and used by the Travel Calculator.
The Schedule Details View works in exactly the same way as the Medicine Details View, protecting against accidental changes with an Edit button at the top right of the screen, and displaying editable fields in dark blue.
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Next Steps
Now that you know how to define your medicines, and how to schedule when to take those medicines, you can enter all your medication data. If you need more details, see the Documentation page.
Remember that MediMemory offers a comprehensive set of supporting tools to help you manage your medications and their usage. Additionally, many aspects of MediMemory can be tailored to meets your own personal preferences.
Finally, if you have any suggestions on how MediMemory could be improved, or would like to suggest a new feature that you think would help MediMemory users, please see our Support page.
We hope you find MediMemory helpful and enjoyable to use.
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8. Daily Planner
If you have one or more medicine schedules defined, the Planner button will be displayed in the top right of the screen. When pressed, the Daily Planner view will be opened.
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